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Museums summarises the central debates for the study of museums around the world. Examining ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as a...
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Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approac...
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada--T.p. verso. Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart ...
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Museum, Media, Message This volume considers in depth the most up-to-date approaches to museum communication - museums as media, museums and audience and the evaluation of museums. Full description
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Museum Making Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in buildin...
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...Sometimes there is a surprise in just jumping into the unknown; Brooklands Museum at Weybridge is one of them and what it has to offer in terms of exhibits. Believe it or not the Museum itself is based at the world?s first race track, a vast two and a half mile circular track that held the earliest form of racing for cars and motorbikes, in fact endurance testing was the main thing that was held...

...the two??. Well someone totally did, and that was the Oxford Museum of the History of Science. This is both a department of Oxford University and a public museum and is generously free to enter, though donations of course are welcome and cunningly encouraged. Now, before you let your imaginations run amok since science covers this ludicrous array of topics I should point out this is a fairly small...

...Bradford?s National Media Museum offers a collection of galleries spread across eight floors, each covering an aspect of photography, TV, film, television, computers and internet technology. We visited for an afternoon but you really do need to allow longer than that if you want to see everything on offer. At times I was conscious of having to hurry through the exhibits, when I would have...